FeedBurner hack to pump RSS subscribers

So okay, the Feedburner RSS subscriber count has just lost its credibility. A video demo by the guys at Next Web shows you how to pump your Feedburner subscriber count to thousands overnight.



Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.

I guess that’s the way Feedburner counts RSS subscription. Anything is possible nowadays.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

5 Responses

  1. Avatar for Philip Tiangson Philip Tiangson says:

    we can also manipulate rss count reader via igoogle.

  2. Avatar for Lyle, RN Lyle, RN says:

    Honesty is still the best policy. Nonetheless, Feedburner should address the issue ASAP.

  3. Avatar for Gem Gem says:

    The opposite happened to me. I checked yesterday and it showed 0 subscribers. I was expecting at least one reader because I subscribe to my own feeds. :-(

  4. Avatar for SELaplana SELaplana says:

    Google should exclude the NETVIBE* i don’t know the spelling… the one that is really being manipulated.

  5. Avatar for Animohosting.com Animohosting.com says:

    they need to fix this issue asap

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